Michael
Dibh, Anaheim
City Council, Dec. 4th "I am a resident of
Anaheim."
"My great-grandfather was the president
of Costa-Rica, Curazo...but since I have an Irish last name and
white skin, I am considered a racist."
"Why do these people think they are greater
than the law?"
"If I was an African-American I would
really be ticked off, because they're ridding of the shoulders
of African- Americans with affirmative action. Those people deserve
it. Illegal aliens don't deserve anything but a kick in the butt
back."Listen

Michael
Dibh (pronounced "deeve") speaks to Anaheim City Council
on Dec. 4th.

ReutersAttacks
Change Attitudes to ImmigrantsSince Sept. 11, the United States has
suddenly seemed a much less welcoming place to foreigners and
immigrants. -- Only a week before the hijack attacks on New York
and Washington that killed around 3,900 people, Mexican President
Vicente Fox was in Washington. At the top of his agenda was a
plan, endorsed by the Bush administration, to offer amnesty to
hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. -- Now, that proposal
has been pushed to the back burner...

Associated
PressConvicted
Killer Confesses to 26 Slayings A man convicted in four murders more
than two decades ago confessed to 26 other slayings after he
was arrested on drug charges. -- Juan Martin Cantu told investigators
he was a drug cartel hit man and killed people from Vera Cruz,
Mexico, to Michigan. Cantu allegedly made the confession in a
taped interview after his arrest Wednesday for felony marijuana
possession. -- Cantu was being detained in by the INS and may
be prosecuted for illegal entry.

National
Post - CanadaMore
ethnic diversity means less trustMore ethnic diversity can mean fewer
connections and less trust among citizens, says Robert Putnam,
the international expert who has charted the fraying of community
values in North America with his groundbreaking research. --
His newest finding, bound to be controversial, even provocative,
will be unveiled in Ottawa tomorrow, when Mr. Putnam speaks at
a federal-government sponsored conference on "bringing communities
together."

San Francisco
ChronicleIllegals
line up to get ID cards Hundreds of immigrants braved a rainy
five-hour line outside the Mexican Consulate yesterday to take
advantage of San Francisco's new policy of requiring all city
agencies to accept consular ID cards as legal identification.
-- San Francisco on Tuesday became the first city or county in
the nation to officially honor the "matricula consulare"
ID card, issued by the consulate to any Mexican who produces
a birth certificate and proof of local residence.

Atlanta
Journal-ConstitutionIllegal
immigrants hunted The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Service announced Tuesday its first systematic attempt to find
314,000 illegal immigrants who have been ordered deported but
cannot be found. -- Rep. Tom
Tancredo (R-Colo.) expressed doubts about the new action.
Tancredo is chairman of the congressional immigration reform
caucus who has protested the failure to enforce deportation orders.

Tucson CitizenArizona-Sonora
region slipping since NAFTAAlthough the Arizona-Sonora region made
some minor improvements in its economic standing compared to
the rest of the border region in 2000, the competitiveness of
the region is slipping in some key areas that could leave it
far behind the pack. -- Since the North American Free Trade Agreement
went into effect in 1994, Arizona-Sonora's share of trade, commodity
and traffic flows have declined.

Charlotte
ObserverGovernors
want stronger Canadian borderGovernors and senators of Northern states
on Wednesday asked Congress to allocate more money to hire Customs
and Immigration and Naturalization Service agents to work at
the border with Canada. -- Without the extra security, vulnerability
to terrorists coming from the north will increase, the officials
said at a hearing on Northern border security before the Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee on the Treasury and General Government.

Beacon Journal4
held from Canton facing deportationAt least four of the eight Canton [Ohio]
men detained in the government's Sept. 11 investigation have
been told they will be deported, their friends said yesterday.

Tulsa WorldIs
the melting pot facing a meltdown? Tom
Tancredo does not count sheep at night to fall asleep. He
counts people, millions of them, all crowding into the American
dream. -- The Republican congressman from Littleton, Colo., counts
waves of illegal immigrants, more than 800,000 a year, streaming
through porous borders. He counts the legions of legal immigrants
coming into the country, one million annually for the past three
decades.

Montgomery
AdvertiserHispanics
take lower rung of jobsThe ever-increasing immigration of Hispanics
is changing the face of America's manual labor pool, especially
as it pertains to positions once held by blacks, two demographic
experts said Tuesday. -- Quintard Taylor, a professor of American
History at the University of Washington, and Roberto Suro, an
author who has written extensively about the subject, said many
black women are looking beyond low- paying domestic jobs because
of limited opportunities for their ancestors.

Arizona
Daily StarADOT
ready to inspect Mexican trucksIt may take months for a federal screening
system to go into effect to ensure Mexican trucks travel safely
on U.S. highways, but Arizona transportation officials say they're
ready now. -- Still, assuming that President Bush signs the $59.6
billion transportation appropriations measure authorizing the
new program, they caution there will be a shakeout period.

Arizona
Daily StarMan
held in keeping illegal alien against willA Pirtleville man was arrested Tuesday
on charges that he held an illegal entrant several days against
her will and demanded $500 ransom for her release. -- Oscar Medrano,
44, made an initial appearance in justice court in Bisbee on
Wednesday and was ordered held on a $25,000 bond. He remained
in the Cochise County Jail late Wednesday.

Re:
Anaheim City Council meetingI attended the Anaheim City Council meeting to
protest the Mexican ID cards for illegal aliens in Orange County.
Those opposed to the ID cards gave dozens of reasons why ID cards
should not be accepted, ranging from being outright illegal to
how illegal immigration was detrimental to our schools, neighborhoods
and culture and should not be tolerated...

Dees gives
the Anaheim City Council some "plain talk." "I cannot for the
life of me understand why the Anaheim Police Department has a
meeting in secret to work out some kind of deal. Are they taking
orders from Washington or Mexico City? I'd like to know why it
seems that we are taking orders from Vicente Fox instead of George
Bush. I voted for George Bush. I didn't see Vicente Fox on the
ballot."
"The word illegal is cut and dried. There
is no room for interpretation."Listen

VDare.com
/ James FulfordPsst!
Wanna Join A Class Action Suit...?...Under Clinton, the INS cut back on
deporting suppliers of cheap labor, and potential Democratic
voters. -- Such raids have all but stopped around the country
over the last year. In a booming economy running short of labor,
hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants are increasingly
tolerated in the nation's workplaces. The Immigration and Naturalization
Service has made crossing the border harder than ever, stepping
up patrols and prosecuting companies...

Orange
Co. Register, December 5: "While one opponent of the card
waved the California flag from his seat, a proponent carried
a sign that read: 'Stop being unfair to immigrants.'"

OUR TAKE:This
is a microcosm of the illegal immigration problem -importing
ignorance and biased reporting.

Demonstrators
at Dec. 4th Anaheim City Council meeting. Sign at left is misspelled.
At right: Estamos Unidos - "We are United." Who? Mexicans?
Mexico and the U.S.? Either way, it spells trouble.

The
sign was misspelled and the Orange County Register refused to
report it.

Bloomberg
/ The News - Mexico CityAFL-CIO
renews call for amnestyThe AFL- CIO, U.S.'s largest union, has
renewed its call for the legalization of undocumented U.S. workers.
-- The nearly 1,000 delegates of the American Federation of Labor
and Congress of Industrial Organizations voted unanimously at
a convention in Las Vegas Tuesday to approve a resolution supporting
legalizing illegal workers. -- "We stand with immigrant
workers to demand that they be treated with dignity and fairness,
on and off the job," the AFL- CIO said in the resolution.

Washington
PostINS
Seeks Law Enforcement Aid in Crackdown U.S. immigration authorities announced
yesterday that they have enlisted the help of law enforcement
agencies in a crackdown on more than 300,000 foreign nationals
who have remained in the country illegally after they were ordered
deported. -- James W. Ziglar, commissioner of the INS, said the
names of as many as 314,000 such foreigners would be entered
in a national FBI crime database so police can help identify
them.

San Francisco
ExaminerS.F.
[illegal alien] Mexicans get new identityIn an effort to ease the hassle of being
a Mexican immigrant in The City, San Francisco became the first
city Tuesday to issue the matricula consulare, or Mexican ID
card. -- Mexican immigrants who have been here for at least six
months are eligible for the cards, which will allow them to apply
for bank loans and open checking accounts, as well as provide
identification when asked to by local law enforcement agencies.
-- "This is the first city that is going to make this official
policy and I guarantee that in the following weeks, you'll see
other cities following suit," said Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval.